
Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda (20 August 1900 – 17 April 1958), known as Rita Montaner, was a Cuban singer, pianist and actress. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette (a star), and was well known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New York, where she performed, filmed and recorded on numerous occasions. She was one of Cuba's most popular artists between the late 1920s and 1950s, renowned as...
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Orphaned by a father and children by a black mother, the little one is rejected by his grandmother, while the girl must deny her own mother.

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")

A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.

Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.

Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.

A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"

Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
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